H3618 - כַּלָּה (kallâh)

H3618 כַּלָּה (kallâh) kal-law'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

daughter-in-law: bride

Strong's Definition

a bride (as if perfect); hence, a son's wife

Derivation: from H3634 (כָּלַל);

KJV Usage: bride, daughter-in-law, spouse.

TWOT Reference: 986a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) bride, daughter-in-law

1a) daughter-in-law

1b) bride, young wife

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3565

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

: bride 1) bride, daughter-in-law 1a) daughter-in-law 1b) bride, young wife Also means: kal.lah (כַּלָּה ": daughter-in-law" H3618H)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

כַּלָּה kallâh BDB Definition: 1) bride, daughter-in-law 1a) daughter-in-law 1b) bride, young wife Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H3634 Same Word by TWOT Number: 986a Total KJV Occurrences: 51

Bible Occurrences (28)

11:31 38:11 38:16 38:24

18:15 20:12

1:6 1:7 1:8 1:22 2:20 2:22 4:15

4:19

2:4

49:18 61:10 62:5

2:32 7:34 16:9 25:10 33:11

22:11

4:13 4:14

2:16

7:6

Genesis 11:31

And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson... Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out... from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 38:11

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up. For he thought, He may die too, like his brothers. So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Genesis 38:16

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, Come now, let me sleep with you. What will you give me for sleeping with... you? she inquired.

Genesis 38:24

About three months later, Judah was told, Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.... Bring her out! Judah replied. Let her be burned to death!

Leviticus 18:15

You must not have sexual relations with... your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her....

Leviticus 20:12

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death.... They have acted perversely; their blood [is] upon them.

Ruth 1:6

When [Naomi] heard... in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.

Ruth 1:7

Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left... the place where she had been [living]... and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.